Vietnam helps Cambodia in drug investigations

09/21/2010
VOV News (Hanoi)

A training programme on drug crime investigation technology and assessment of drug origins has been held in HCM City for Cambodia’s anti-drug police and executive forces.

The five-day programme that will last through September 24 is within the framework of a memorandum of understanding of the bilateral ministerial conference on drug prevention and control that took place in HCM City last year.

During the training programme, representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security’s Drug Crime Investigation Police Department and Criminology Institute informed Cambodian police of the drug crime situation along the common border and cooperation in investigating drug crimes between Vietnam and Cambodia and among regional countries.

They also spoke of the Vietnamese police force’s typical drug investigation cases and their experiences in information collection as well as methods to analyse drug substances.

Forest of Ecstasy

Thailand: Yah Bah scourge in Pattaya was ordered from Cambodia

Chicken Merchant Arrested For Dealing In Yah Bah

August 22, 2007
Pattaya Daily News (Thailand)

Pattaya police arrested a chicken merchant from Rayong Province for dealing in Yah Bah. The illicit drugs were ordered from Cambodia to be distributed in Rayong Province and Pattaya City. Police confiscated the Yah Bah and a gun.

On 22 August 2007, at 3 AM, Police Lieutenant Colonel. Santi Chainiranam, of the Pattaya Police, and a team of officers, arrested a Yah Bah dealer, and then extended the investigation by having the dealer order Yah Bah from Mr. Dul, a Yah Bah agent. They arranged for 350 tablets of Yah Bah to be delivered to Forte Karaoke car park, on North Pattaya Third Road, where police waited to make arrests.

At the time of the delivery, a bronze Toyota Hilux Vigo, license 2689 Rayong, with a motorbike on the back of the truck, covered with cloth, drove into the car park. Police recognized the truck as their target. The truck was driven by a man with a female passenger. Police immediately arrested them as they emerged from the truck. The driver was Mr. Adul Kajornpreedasak, Nickname "Dul" (28), living at 78/13 Moo 2, Namkrok, Mueng, Rayong Province and Miss Goi (Alias) (26), his girl friend.

Police searched the truck and found two bags of Yah Bah, totaling 350 tablets, hidden under the driver’s seat;, and a Noringo nine mm gun, with three bullets. Police confiscated all evidence, including the truck and the motorbike on the back, for further investigation.

Mr. Adul confessed that had been a Yah Bah dealer for a long time. He was arrested two times in the past. When not dealing drugs, he works as a chicken merchant in Rayong Market. He would order the illicit drugs from Khmer people to distribute to customers in both Rayong Province and Pattaya city. Mr. Adul claimed that his girlfriend had nothing to do with the Yah Bah dealing. He said that she merely accompanied him to Pattaya. The police arrested both of them and will investigate further to try and rid the city of this terrible Yah Bah scourge.